Postcards From Paradise: What Has Fallen Soon Must Rise: Love Offerings for Japan In Her Time Of Great Need

Last Light by Ursula I Abresch

Why did you vanishinto empty sky?Even the fragile snow,when it falls,falls in this world.

Izumi Shikibu

“The Fallen” by Ursula I Abresch

Which is the least unreliableamong fickle things—the swift rapids,a flowing river,or this human world

Izumi Shikibu

974-1034

In My Garden III by Ursula I Abresch

This bodygrown fragile floating,a reed cut from its roots . . .If a stream would ask meto follow, I'd go, I think.~Ono no Komachi,9th century

“Signs of Spring” by Ursula I Abresch with Kind Permission

This life of ours would not cause you sorrowif you thought of it as likethe mountain cherryblossomswhich bloom and fade in a day.

MURASAKI SHIKIBU

(974-1031)

Mission To Help Bring AID and Comfort To Japan:The Aquatic Angels is a fundraising team that has formed online in an effort to help the wonderful and deserving people of Japan who need our mercy, compassion and care. We are giving you the opportunity to Join Us in Offering the Japanese People, who have faced the disaster of both Earthquake and Tsunami ~ Shelter, Comfort, Warmth and a Chance at Human Dignity in the Face of True Disaster. If you would like to help our team, Aquatic Angels,~ simply Sponsor us, by clicking on any one of the colored links in the poems above or the team name link in this paragraph or any of the “shelter colored links. In addition, there is a ShelterBoxUSA Logo at the bottom of my blogsite page. It says “ShelterBoxUSA” and Aquatic Angels Team. You may click on the Logo as well.

Clicking will take you to a page for ShelterBoxusa.org where you may donate whatever you can afford to help us in our goal to purchase A Second Shelterbox for $1,000 dollars (the cost of one box is $1,000 for contents and deployment). We are deeply grateful to those who have helped us reach our first goal to send one box off to Japan. Many Thanks to You Compassionate Friends! Arigatou gozaimasu! Each ShelterBox can provide Shelter, comfort, warmth, survival and dignity for an extended family of 10 people! We want to continue to offer hope to children and families who currently do not see a brighter tomorrow! Thank you for your kindness and compassion. May the One who loves us and cares for all our needs watch over you and your family.Blessings and Light,Noelle Renee ~ Team Captain ~ Aquatic AngelsHere is a short and very informative film on Shelterbox and what they do. (a little over 5 min.) You may enlarge it.Here is the facebook link for ShelterBox as well: http://www.facebook.com/shelterboxusa?ref=tsHere is a great article by Gizmodo about what is in the boxhttp://gizmodo.com/#!5781768/whats-inside-the-shelter-boxes-going-to-japan

~Murasaki Shikibu’s poem is taken from Kenneth Rexroth’s Translations from Japanese~All Photographs are used with the Generous Permission of Ursula I Abresch who wishes to offer, “maybe, just a little bit of beauty and comfort to the devastation in Japan.” We are blessed by her work and Thank her!~Arigatou gozaimasu, Ursula!~Ursula I Abresch ~Photographer

~For More Postcards from Paradise, Please Sojourn to Recuerda mi Corazon where you will find beautiful images and messages to think about and ponder.

Thank you, Meri. I am very grateful for that. We are making good headway. Ispoke at Unity church this morning. A friend donated a very generous amountand a received another generous donation in cash this morning that I have toenter. Our box will be on its way soon.Blessings,Noelle

Ursulu's images are amazing! And joined with the Japanese poetry! Sublime! I am making my contribution tomorrow am to the Shelter Box site. Everything you do, Noelle, has so much intention behind it! Thank you!

Margaret,Thank you for your kind words. I now have a Shelterbox logo at the bottom ofmy blog. You can click on that as well and it will go to our team site whereyou can donate and thank you so much for your openheartedness, compassionand generosity!xoxo,Noelle

I am a Marriage and Family Intern in counseling psychology . I am certain that Storytelling, Art, Poetry and Drama can be used to alleviate or redirect feelings of trauma, fear, or anxiety and also to repair, restore and heal. In that vein, I see storytellers, artists, photographers, poets and actors as part of a community of healers of a wounded society and restorers of a more unified and peaceful world culture. Currently, I am exploring how such restorative healing can take place in children who suffer trauma living in armed conflict zones as do the children in the occupied Palestinian territories.